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July 20, 2009 VOL. LXI, NO. 13

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COVER STORY
Dependence Day
Health care is a game-changer. The permanent game-changer. The government annexation of health care will prove impossible to roll back. It alters the relationship between the citizen and the state and, once that transformation is effected, you can click your ruby slippers all you want but you’ll never get back to Kansas. By Mark Steyn

ARTICLES

Obama's Health-Care Gamble — by Ramesh Ponnuru
The stakes for the president are high

Scapegoats in White Coats — by John C. Goodman
Doctors are not to blame for the high cost of medical services

Our Common Foe — by Michael Rubin
Obama should support the Iranian people by speaking out against their oppressors

Revolutionary Types — by John O'Sullivan
Iran's is a peaceful uprising

Sanford's Seventies Show — by Rob Long
The South Carolina governor's place in the pantheon of political adulterers

Dependence Day — by Mark Steyn
State control of health care will change our political culture, for the worse and forever

Going Alamo — by Kevin D. Williamson
Why jobs and companies are flocking to a big small-government state

An Occurrence on Fuyou Street — by Ethan Gutmann
The Communist myth of Falun Gong's original sin

BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS

Story Morals — Cheryl Miller examines the works and warnings of best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult.

Man, Machine, and Copyright — Adam Thierer reviews Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, by Mark Helprin

Music: Podium Prodigy — Jay Nordlinger talks with Lorin Maazel, as the maestro leaves the New York Philharmonic.

Film: Enemies of the State — Ross Douthat reviews Public Enemies

City LIfe: Skull Session — Richard Brookhiser empathizes with migraine sufferers.

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